HOLI FESTIVAL
Holi is the Hindu Festival that welcomes Spring and celebrates the new life and energy of the season. It is also called ‘The Festival of Colour’ because people celebrate by smearing each other with coloured powders and paint. Most certainly the Festival is known for its lively singing and dancing and outrageous behaviour.
The main Holi legend is the legend of Prahalad and Holika which maintains that good always prevails over evil. During the evening of the full moon bonfires are lit in the streets in order to purify the air of evil spirits.
The Holi Festival is a great leveller with people of different caste, class, and gender mixing freely. This is perhaps as well as it is almost impossible to recognise people under all the coloured powder !
The Holi Festival is a vibrant occasion full of fun and good humour – and not for the faint hearted !
HOLI FESTIVAL PORTRAITS. INDIA
Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindu’s. Holi is also known as the festival of colours and is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other.